Episode 43: Unravelling At The Seams

THIS WEEK: Sven and Van delve into the 2014 film, Kikaider: REBOOT. Salt stocks have never been higher as their cups boil over. Our podcasters are fooled by goatees, Sven’s childhood comes back in the strangest way; Ishinomori villain motives are brought up and then summarily ignored; an infamous Kickstarter kerfuffle gets dredged up; our hosts’ friendship is based on being smad on behalf of robots, and it’s not just the movie which ends up unravelling at its seams.

TOPICS:

Kikaider: REBOOT (2014)

Cast & crew

Bijinder/Mari

The conscience circuit & facial recognition

Komyoji & Gill / Light & Wily

Mitsuko’s interpretation

The vertical slice movie scene

Kikaider’s 2014 redesign

Budget-busting Metal Gear

Gill’s convictions

Mega Man X

Nanocrystal displays

Jiro’s character: then and now

Old man tastes

Daisuke Ban’s cameo role

Kickstarter nonstarters

Gill’s transformation and motives

On love and compassion

Kikaider’s will to fight/the conscience circuit scene
* Final thoughts and feelings